Washington, November 5: Vice-President JD Vance has identified the ongoing Iran conflict as the main reason for the Republican Party’s defeat in the US midterm elections.
Vance said conversations with pollsters indicated that anger had pushed some Trump voters towards Democratic candidates. He called for an honest assessment of the war’s political consequences as Republicans considered their next steps.
President Donald Trump broadly accepted that the conflict had affected the election but continued to defend military action. His response underlined a difference in emphasis: Vance focused on the electoral damage, while Trump maintained that the campaign remained necessary.
The exchange followed Democratic victories that restored the party’s control of both chambers of Congress.
